CVE-2024-12678 Nomad Allocations Vulnerable To Privilege Escalation Within A Namespace Using Unredacted Workload Identity Tokens

What is CVE-2024-12678?

CVE-2024-12678 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HashiCorp Nomad, published on 20 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise ("Nomad") allocations are vulnerable to privilege escalation within a namespace through unredacted workload identity tokens. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-12678, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 1.9.4 and Nomad Enterprise 1.9.4, 1.8.8, and 1.7.16.

Weakness: CWE-266

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12678?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/hashicorp/nomad. It affects 1 product.

Products include Hashicorp Nomad.

How do I fix CVE-2024-12678?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/nomad to 1.9.4 or later.

Is CVE-2024-12678 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12678 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in HashiCorp Nomad

• CVE-2023-1782 Nomad Unauthenticated Client Agent HTTP Request Privilege Escalation Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-30324 Privilege escalation in Hashicorp Nomad Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7956 Improper Certificate Validation in HashiCorp Nomad Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-12618 Hashicorp Nomad Access Control Issues Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-27195 Use After Free in HashiCorp Nomad Critical 9.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-hr68-hvgv-xxqf, GO-2024-3354, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-12678.